Software Testing as a career path? Becoming a test architectHi Joe,thanks for your input.I am sorry if I have hurt any people who are in QA roles,that's not my intention.Perhaps my view was very primitive.Maybe my current job role is very bad.Nothing against QA role or tester role,in fact the end goal of both is to deliver great software.

Are metrics something important?That's correct.But I am not speaking about metrics on test planning,test schedule,test scope here,they are absolutely required.As far I have done testing in my career real bugs from ad-hoc testing and negative testing.These are the areas where developers miss out.But again metrics are viewed differently from a normal tester than a QA manager,if a metric does not matter much,its better to drop it out than just do it for the sake of doing it.

Are metrics something important?I never meant it that way.I am saying that it should be used in a way that it actually matters to the project.For short releases,the regression suite would matter much more than the metrics themselves.I am not saying that metrics are not needed at all,but there are other more important things.